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Thomas Keating Quote: “In the world that lies ahead, religious pluralism is going to penetrate all cultures. How we live together with different points of view is going to become more and more important. I don’t know whether we can make progress in such a project without a contemplative practice that alerts us to our own biases, prejudices, and self-centered programs for happiness, especially when they trample on other people’s rights and needs.”

51. “In the world that lies ahead, religious pluralism is going to penetrate all cultures. How we live together with different points of view is going to become more and more important. I don’t know whether we can make progress in such a project without a contemplative practice that alerts us to our own biases, prejudices, and self-centered programs for happiness, especially when they trample on other people’s rights and needs.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.”

52. “The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Where are you?” God’s question to us never changes. In some cases, life has been so tragic that we are not free to decide where we are. But the power of divine grace, especially as it is experienced in contemplative prayer, opens us to the unconscious and introduces us to a world of unlimited possibilities that are unknown to us now.”

53. “Where are you?” God’s question to us never changes. In some cases, life has been so tragic that we are not free to decide where we are. But the power of divine grace, especially as it is experienced in contemplative prayer, opens us to the unconscious and introduces us to a world of unlimited possibilities that are unknown to us now.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “The striking discoveries of contemporary science are continually telling us new things about how material creation came to be and how it continues to evolve. Although we do not have all the answers, we are clearly going in a direction that transcends the cosmology in which the great world religions came into existence. Our vision, understanding, and our attitudes about God inevitably must change.”

54. “The striking discoveries of contemporary science are continually telling us new things about how material creation came to be and how it continues to evolve. Although we do not have all the answers, we are clearly going in a direction that transcends the cosmology in which the great world religions came into existence. Our vision, understanding, and our attitudes about God inevitably must change.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “The Divine Therapy is designed to enable us to negotiate this healing process according to genetic and temperamental factors, our personality and the circumstances of our lives. An enormous Intelligence is guiding us through this process with a love that is unconditional and determined to bring about this healing, whatever the cost to Itself.”

55. “The Divine Therapy is designed to enable us to negotiate this healing process according to genetic and temperamental factors, our personality and the circumstances of our lives. An enormous Intelligence is guiding us through this process with a love that is unconditional and determined to bring about this healing, whatever the cost to Itself.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Perhaps 90 percent of its desires, psychologists say, are unconscious; in other words, many of our deepest commitments to symbols of security, power, and affection in the culture are rooted in desires that are absolutely impossible to achieve.”

56. “Perhaps 90 percent of its desires, psychologists say, are unconscious; in other words, many of our deepest commitments to symbols of security, power, and affection in the culture are rooted in desires that are absolutely impossible to achieve.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Where am I? Where am I in relation to God, to myself, and to others? These are the basic questions of human life.”

57. “Where am I? Where am I in relation to God, to myself, and to others? These are the basic questions of human life.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “The great treasure that interreligious dialogue among the world religions could unlock is to enable people to get to know and love other religions and the people who practice them. The.”

58. “The great treasure that interreligious dialogue among the world religions could unlock is to enable people to get to know and love other religions and the people who practice them. The.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn’t work out too well.”

59. “Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn’t work out too well.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “The best way to understand another person’s religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.”

60. “The best way to understand another person’s religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.”

61. “Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “How should we handle these afflictive emotions? By facing them, by feeling them. Feelings that have been repressed have to be allowed to pass through our awareness once again in order to be left behind for good. Most of the time, they don’t need psychotherapy; they just need to be evacuated. We might say that we are suffering from acute psychic indigestion, a nausea of a psychological character that is interfering with our mental health and all our relationships.”

62. “How should we handle these afflictive emotions? By facing them, by feeling them. Feelings that have been repressed have to be allowed to pass through our awareness once again in order to be left behind for good. Most of the time, they don’t need psychotherapy; they just need to be evacuated. We might say that we are suffering from acute psychic indigestion, a nausea of a psychological character that is interfering with our mental health and all our relationships.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “It’s obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.”

63. “It’s obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.”

64. “The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.”

65. “Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.”

66. “For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “When the presence of God emerges from our inmost being into our faculties, whether we walk down the street or drink a cup of soup, divine life is pouring into the world.”

67. “When the presence of God emerges from our inmost being into our faculties, whether we walk down the street or drink a cup of soup, divine life is pouring into the world.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “I venture to say that it’s not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.”

68. “I venture to say that it’s not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.”

69. “Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can’t find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One’s children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.”

70. “The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can’t find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One’s children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “In a crisis of choice when you are perplexed and do not know which way to go, it might be good to consult several persons.”

71. “In a crisis of choice when you are perplexed and do not know which way to go, it might be good to consult several persons.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity’s lengthy history.”

72. “We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity’s lengthy history.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Contemplative prayer starts modestly, but as soon as it begins to reach a certain intensity, it opens us to the unconscious. Painful memories that we have forgotten or repressed begin to come to consciousness. Primitive emotions that we felt as children and that we have been compensating for may come to consciousness.”

73. “Contemplative prayer starts modestly, but as soon as it begins to reach a certain intensity, it opens us to the unconscious. Painful memories that we have forgotten or repressed begin to come to consciousness. Primitive emotions that we felt as children and that we have been compensating for may come to consciousness.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Now we are entertaining the suggestion that the real work of prayer is just to get rid of the very assumption that was the foundation of all these other modes of prayer. It is a matter of shifting the location of the sense of identity. We have to accept the idea that the word I does not have a fixed and clear and obvious referent. This is where the transformation that we undergo becomes more and more radical with each breakthrough or illumination.”

74. “Now we are entertaining the suggestion that the real work of prayer is just to get rid of the very assumption that was the foundation of all these other modes of prayer. It is a matter of shifting the location of the sense of identity. We have to accept the idea that the word I does not have a fixed and clear and obvious referent. This is where the transformation that we undergo becomes more and more radical with each breakthrough or illumination.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “As soon as we notice we are annoyed or angry about something, we tend to protect ourselves by projecting the cause of our upsetting emotion onto a situation or another person: “They” did this to me. “They” are always a problem. But, in fact, the real problem is not “them” but us. All biases and prejudices are the attitudes of a child from ages four to eight. If they are present in us, we are still functioning at the level of a preadolescent.”

75. “As soon as we notice we are annoyed or angry about something, we tend to protect ourselves by projecting the cause of our upsetting emotion onto a situation or another person: “They” did this to me. “They” are always a problem. But, in fact, the real problem is not “them” but us. All biases and prejudices are the attitudes of a child from ages four to eight. If they are present in us, we are still functioning at the level of a preadolescent.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “If our value system doesn’t allow us to enjoy anything without putting a price on it, we miss a great part of the beauty of life. When we bring this value system into the domain of prayer, we can never enjoy God. As soon as we start enjoying Him, we have to reflect, “Oh boy, I’m enjoying God!” And as soon as we do that, we are taking a photograph of the experience. Every reflection is like a photograph of reality. It isn’t our original experience; it is a commentary on it.”

76. “If our value system doesn’t allow us to enjoy anything without putting a price on it, we miss a great part of the beauty of life. When we bring this value system into the domain of prayer, we can never enjoy God. As soon as we start enjoying Him, we have to reflect, “Oh boy, I’m enjoying God!” And as soon as we do that, we are taking a photograph of the experience. Every reflection is like a photograph of reality. It isn’t our original experience; it is a commentary on it.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “Service without seeking any return characterizes the Ultimate Reality.”

77. “Service without seeking any return characterizes the Ultimate Reality.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “The fact that we experience anxiety and annoyance is the certain sign that, in the unconscious, there is an emotional program for happiness that has just been frustrated.”

78. “The fact that we experience anxiety and annoyance is the certain sign that, in the unconscious, there is an emotional program for happiness that has just been frustrated.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “In the Old Testament, substitutes for the divine presence were called demons or false gods. If we can grasp the fact that only the experience of God can put into perspective all other forms of pleasure or the promises of happiness that various creatures provide, then we will realize that we are looking for happiness in the grass, in the wrong places. All the help we can get from other people who experience the same psychological privation won’t do a bit of good.”

79. “In the Old Testament, substitutes for the divine presence were called demons or false gods. If we can grasp the fact that only the experience of God can put into perspective all other forms of pleasure or the promises of happiness that various creatures provide, then we will realize that we are looking for happiness in the grass, in the wrong places. All the help we can get from other people who experience the same psychological privation won’t do a bit of good.”

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Thomas Keating Quote: “What kind of God is this who permits or sends such tragedy into the lives of his friends? Job complained bitterly about his pitiful condition. But would he have learned who God is unless he had gone through the shattering experiences that brought to an end his naive conception of how God functions? The greatest fruit of the night of spirit is the disposition that is willing to accept God on his own terms. As a result, one allows God to be God without knowing who or what that is.”

80. “What kind of God is this who permits or sends such tragedy into the lives of his friends? Job complained bitterly about his pitiful condition. But would he have learned who God is unless he had gone through the shattering experiences that brought to an end his naive conception of how God functions? The greatest fruit of the night of spirit is the disposition that is willing to accept God on his own terms. As a result, one allows God to be God without knowing who or what that is.”

— Thomas Keating

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